 Dear reader, Here are the latest articles published today on the World Socialist Web Site. The decision to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine is only the latest and most provocative in a series of moves by Washington aimed at escalating the war in Ukraine. In the barrage of propaganda over the supposed necessity to slash social programs to avert the nation's first-ever default on its debt obligations, nothing is said about the role of military spending in driving up the debt. Between 2019 and 2021, child and adolescent mortality rose by nearly 20 percent, driven primarily by violent deaths and deaths of despair. Eric Adams, the Democratic mayor of New York City, has proposed housing asylum seekers arriving from the southern US border in a facility notorious for violence and abuse. Chief warmonger Adam Schiff, one of several Democrats who voted to ban railroad workers' right to strike last year, is among the politicians promoted by the Writers Guild leaders. With an additional 8,000 officers in England and Wales carrying Taster guns, it means that 25,000 out of 123,000 cops—one in five—are armed. The Scottish government scrapped the use of masks in health and social care settings, four days after the World Health Organisation falsely declared the pandemic emergency over. The continued support of the HDP and the pseudo-left parties for Kılıçdaroğlu as an "alternative" to Erdoğan, despite his campaign's pro-imperialist and xenophobic character, exposes their own political bankruptcy. Pseudo-left parties like the CRT are shielding Podemos and Sumar from criticism on their left, to block a movement in the working class against Spain's capitalist government. The 62-minute episode has an unquestionably unnerving quality. It provides an artistic and accurate depiction of the breakdown of democracy and the lurch toward fascism by the American ruling elite. The EVG union is preparing to enforce a wage cut based on the rail management's offer, greased merely by a fractional concession on a minimum wage. Shoving, fist strikes and painful pressure points, shackling and restraining, twisting joint and limbs, choking and kicking, attacks with tasers or pepper spray, use of police dogs and water cannons—the list of assaults with which the police in Germany maltreat their victims is long. The event was not to celebrate the incredible skills of these low-paid workers but part of an ongoing propaganda campaign by Hayleys and other plantation companies to drive up productivity. A resident of Loafers Lodge in Wellington, where at least six people died in the May 16 fire, told the WSWS that people struggled to escape from the upper floors. Amid growing unemployment, deliberately driven by interest rate hikes, a report shows that the Labor government's income tax cuts will hand the lion's share of $313 billion to the rich over the next decade. Between the cost of university education, inflation, and lack of support, many international students are at acute risk of poverty, ill-health, and homelessness. This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago and 100 years ago. About the WSWS The World Socialist Web Site is published by the International Committee of the Fourth International, the world Trotskyist movement, and its affiliated sections in the Socialist Equality Parties around the world. Find out more about joining the Socialist Equality Party.
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